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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you think it’d be a good idea to send your lazy kid to a competitive school? He will get rejected anyway, and they will be doing him a favor.

Also, you can blather all you want about how “smart” he is, but, you have no clue because you aren’t at school comparing him to all the other kids. His grades say that his intelligence is, at best, average. Actual smart kids are motivated to not look average.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you to all the honest/helpful responses. I know that it’s very unlikely he has any shot—I guess I was just looking for some hope! I understand the questioning why I would send him to a competitive school. The reason is that it is competitive to get admitted to the school, but then the students are much more relaxed bc the emphasis is on learning and not on just test scores. Based on my research, the kids that go there are also not motivated by just grades (unlike the above poster’s “actual smart kids” who want to look smart). I was hoping this school would be a good fit but now there’s almost no chance of being admitted. 
For the snarky/rude posters, I know what “smart, motivated kids” are like. I have two older children who went to the same traditional school my son is at, got straight As, and they are now at elite colleges. My son has a higher IQ on formal testing than both of his siblings (close to 140) but is just not as driven to turn in homework, unfortunately :( [/quote]

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